[SOLVED] need help mounting a rom usb drive

hananelroe · 10-27-2022, 05:44 AM

I have a read-only usb drive that contains a software key, it's listed as sr0:

Code:

$ lsblk
NAME          MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINTS
sda             8:0    0 223.6G  0 disk  
├─sda1          8:1    0   256M  0 part  /media/hananelroe/305955D3775E8F4B
├─sda2          8:2    0     2G  0 part  
└─sda3          8:3    0 221.3G  0 part  /mnt/lfs
sr0            11:0    1  15.2G  0 rom   
nvme0n1       259:0    0 476.9G  0 disk  
├─nvme0n1p1   259:1    0   498M  0 part  /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2   259:2    0     4G  0 part  /recovery
├─nvme0n1p3   259:3    0 468.4G  0 part  /
└─nvme0n1p4   259:4    0     4G  0 part  
  └─cryptswap 253:0    0     4G  0 crypt [SWAP]

when I try to:

Code:

sudo mount /dev/sr0 Desktop/respona/

it responds with:

Code:

mount: /home/hananelroe/Desktop/respona: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

does anyone know what can I do to mount it?

TenTenths · 10-27-2022, 05:53 AM

Try finding out what the file system is and specifying that with mount -t

hananelroe · 10-27-2022, 06:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TenTenths

Try finding out what the file system is and specifying that with mount -t

I looked at it on a windows machine and it told me the USB has CDFS file system. but when I try to mount with it it says:

Code:

mount: /home/hananelroe/Desktop/respona: unknown filesystem type 'CDFS'.

TenTenths · 10-27-2022, 06:52 AM

On your windows machine does it show up as a USB drive or does it show up as a CD-ROM? Can you copy the files you need from it via Windows?

hananelroe · 10-27-2022, 07:01 AM

SOLUTION:

after some googling, I found this command:

Code:

sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /media/data/cd

it did the job